Re: Cart and Horse

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On 4/13/09, Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu> wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 11:06:55 Roy wrote:
>  > A friend mentioned at dinner yesterday that he spotted several AT&T
>  > trucks next to manholes in the area affected by the fiber cut.  They
>  > were busy welding the manhole covers to their rims.
>
> :-)
>
>  Sounds like a cutting torch or portable chop saw will become standard service
>  equipment for them after all.

*heh*  Just in case the next vandals slice the fiber, then weld the manhole
covers shut on the way out?

I guess the only thing worse would be for the vandals to have a truckload
of quick-drying cement with them; slice the fiber, dump quick-drying
cement into the vault, pop the lid on, tamp thermite in the gap around
the rim and flash weld it shut.  Talk about creating an extended outage
scenario.  ^_^;